Received the Wavecore two30wao5 yesterday. Look sweet and very robust. Huge dome and huge surround for a tweeter. Do have an issue due to not so great packaging by the vendor. Since the domes protrude past the faceplate and the vendor did not use standoffs on the faceplate, all domes were dented. The others had much deeper dents and all of them popped out as they were unwrapped, but the one with the smallest dent did not. For the dents that popped out on their own, will it hurt anything? Any delicate way to fix the one that didn't spring back?
Did they not come in the original packaging from Wavecor?
Anyway, I would try to gently massage it out pushing on the side of the dome, worst case you can try and disassemble the tweeter and push it out from the back.
If there's leftover permemant creases it may have some effect on the frequency response, probably minor. Your other 3 looks perfectly fine from what I can see in the photo.
Nope, they came rolled in cardboard. Got the dent out and see no creases, yippee! Time to figure out what to do with them. Three speakers 'currently in process', heavily considering picking up 32 of the 4" pe buyout and mylar tweets from danP for a friggin' huge line array, waiting on metalflake and dye to blue candy the Shy (cp/rst) build, now these beauties, three shelves of drivers waiting to be used ... I may have a problem.
Received the Wavecore two30wao5 yesterday. Look sweet and very robust. Huge dome and huge surround for a tweeter. Do have an issue due to not so great packaging by the vendor. Since the domes protrude past the faceplate and the vendor did not use standoffs on the faceplate, all domes were dented. The others had much deeper dents and all of them popped out as they were unwrapped, but the one with the smallest dent did not. For the dents that popped out on their own, will it hurt anything? Any delicate way to fix the one that didn't spring back?
Yep, good price and they were advertised as brand new. All is well though, cannot see any creases in the last one that popped out. I'll sweep em' w/dats when time allows.
Yep, good price and they were advertised as brand new. All is well though, cannot see any creases in the last one that popped out. I'll sweep em' w/dats when time allows.
Good plan. I have had this present no issues before, but once I did get a set of the scanspeak version of the vifa dx25, with one dented dome. It popped out but left visible differences in 'sheen' where I guess the coating was affected, and by eye I could have sworn the curvature of the dome was a tiny bit different. More importantly, that tweeter had a recurring 'fuzzy' type distortion that I could never get rid of; got a repair kit with a new dome and it's good as new.
At first I was disappointed these measurements didn't make one line like @ani_101 tw022 but then I looked closer at his graph. Could the small difference in #1 be from the dents?
Actually, I did use masking tape instead of the 'suck on it' method.
Ani, did your tw022 come with the plastic standoffs so the domes wouldn't get mashed?
No wrinkles either. Since it's totally active, I'm really wondering about slipping them into the naks for a bit and maybe using them in an 8" w/out wave guide, if Don doesn't grab the next pair that comes up for sale. These things look like they might go below 1.5k. I'll see if there is enough room in an existing speaker to mount one of the tw030 and get an in-situation measurement. Have yet to find any distortion measurements online.
But this is the retail packaging. Wholesale or OEM can be just wrapped in brown paper... I have received all sorts, but usually they are not proud of the frame.
But usually Erich's packaging is pretty good. Maybe inform him that there is an issue with this sort of packing without standoffs.
This is for the BMR, but sure if this is how it comes, it was not even DOTD from PE. Once I open it there's no going back. There is no NIB, as there is no box.
I'm gonna try to chill on buys for now. storage shelves are once again full (and much more). I've got pairs of Airborne 5002, 4001, CSS LD22, XT25, and 2 pairs of wavecor tweeters. That's about 3 years of builds for me...
But Chahly - Stahkist don't want speakers that look good, Stahkist wants speakers that sound good!
Was just poking ya' Don. Got the same problem here.
I need to stop buying and start finishing what's already started and in no way do I need to add a bunch of line array drivers to the list ... um ... pile.
ani, started to contact Erich but backed out after seeing the tweeters should be ok.
That's the way pe ships a lot of drivers and some of them have arrived damaged because they slid out of the cardboard wrapper and/or took a good hit.
Did the odd 7 screws give it away? Not holding out, it just isn't my build. Got them for an incredible deal, which I couldn't justify not getting, usually it's the other way around.
It sound good enough, so haven't measured or tweaked it. Set it up to see if it was working, haven't moved it after that. Package included the towers, center and two AB mono blocks.
They were local, and 1500 for a new pair of Raal OR heavily built towers, center and amps. Still too rich, but I wasn't attending any events this year....
Good thing they were local too, I could barely get them inside and literally slid them down the stairs to the basement, even though the towers are two pieces.
They were local, and 1500 for a new pair of Raal OR heavily built towers, center and amps. Still too rich, but I wasn't attending any events this year....
Good thing they were local too, I could barely get them inside and literally slid them down the stairs to the basement.
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I have received all sorts, but usually they are not proud of the frame.
But usually Erich's packaging is pretty good. Maybe inform him that there is an issue with this sort of packing without standoffs.
This is for the BMR, but sure if this is how it comes, it was not even DOTD from PE. Once I open it there's no going back. There is no NIB, as there is no box.
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Not holding out, it just isn't my build. Got them for an incredible deal, which I couldn't justify not getting, usually it's the other way around.
It sound good enough, so haven't measured or tweaked it. Set it up to see if it was working, haven't moved it after that. Package included the towers, center and two AB mono blocks.
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Good thing they were local too, I could barely get them inside and literally slid them down the stairs to the basement, even though the towers are two pieces.
Good thing they were local too, I could barely get them inside and literally slid them down the stairs to the basement.